Monthly Archives: April 2017

This book, which I hesitate to call a novel, is a rambling narrative, full of stories within stories, myths and legends blending into reality. Villoso has created a rich and detailed setting, populated with fully formed and empathetic characters, whose tiny lives are limned with precision. However, this author has a habit of leaving out important […]

The Black Dawn setup is typical of the Teen Paranormal genre: a group of misfits with varied magical skills, isolated from society, battles a superior force with a totalitarian leadership. All of them are young, beautiful, powerful, and traumatized by the life they have been forced into. What sets this book apart from most in […]

This is a story of disturbed people doing disturbing things to each other. It is also a story of complicated plot twists, and there is a tenuous supernatural thread running through it, as well. In a search for horror and suspense, this author has pretty much thrown in the kitchen sink and everything in it. […]